`Voices' Blamed In Beheading

FLORIDA - The State - In Brief

April 2, 2005

PANAMA CITY -- A man accused of strangling and beheading his possibly pregnant wife and then throwing her in a marsh said in a jailhouse interview that she told him to kill her and he hears "voices" of friends in his head.

Blake Collier, 19, charged with killing his estranged 18-year-old wife, Lennia Hing, held a 20-minute interview with The News Herald of Panama City, the newspaper reported. The carpenter remained jailed without bail Friday facing a murder charge.